[olug] sendmail help - speed up delivery from the queue

[Ryan Stille]

I've got 3000 messages in my queue, and they seem to be going out very 
slowly.  These are all outbound messages, none are being delivered 
locally.   When I do a ps ax|grep sendmail I see only two delivery 
threads going at a time, and they are often both processing the same two 
messages for quite a while (waiting for some timeout, I'm sure).

I'd like it to be delivering using 10-30 or so outbound connections at a 
time.  Can this be done?

I have MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN set to 12, so I thought it should be running 
8-10 delivery threads with that setting.

Thanks,
-Ryan